• Frank Dikötter Mao's great famine

  "Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Anna Reid Leningrad

  "On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth century - would have been very different.Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal...

  Engels | 512 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• John Carlin White angels

  "The world over, no sportsman - and maybe no other individual - provokes more fascination, argument and interest than the Londoner with the film-star looks, David Beckham. No sports team exudes more glamour, has won more competitions or possesses a more dazzling collection of superstars than Real Madrid. The fusion of the two has gripped the attention of millions and changed the face of the world's favourite sport, making a clear divide between the Old Football and the New. White Angels is the insider's...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Rachel Campbell-Johnston Mysterious wisdom

  "A devotee of the great visionary William Blake, Samuel Palmer became the lynchpin of the first British art movement. Leading a band of fellow artists - the brotherhood of Ancients - out of London to the village of Shoreham in Kent, he set out to create a new rural ideal. His paintings of slumbering shepherds and tumbling blossoms, of mystical cornfields and bright sickle moons, capture a world in which landscape and politics, religion and culture all meet. They reflect the concerns of the nineteenth...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Paul Collins The trouble with Tom

  "The author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man, a radical on the run from the law in London, a founding father of the United States of America, a senator of revolutionary France, Thomas Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. He was a walking revolution in human form - the most dangerous man alive. But in death Paine's story turns truly bizarre - his bones were taken from New York to London and eventually disappeared. In Paris, London and New York, in bars,...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Rajiv Chandrasekaran Little America

  "The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch. Has the war been worth the money and the bloodshed?...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (5,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Gabrielle Walker Antarctica

  "There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape, for example - but none has managed to capture whole story, till now.Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent. Antarctica weaves all...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Sally Prue James and the alien experiment

  "An engaging, well-written, humorous story about a perennially popular subject. James and the Alien Experiment is a comedy about a boy who is kidnapped by aliens. They're quite well-meaning aliens though, who want to improve his rather useless human body - which proves not to be entirely a bad thing (just mostly a bad thing). Ross is given super-strength, super-brains and super-speed and in the end he succeeds in sorting out his truly loathsome form teacher."

  Engels | 96 pagina's (3,1 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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• Mary Hoffman City of flowers

  "Sequel to City of Masks and City of Stars, the narrative moves to the Talian equivalent of the city of Florence, where beauty and danger walk - as ever - hand in hand. The focus this time is on the new Stravagante, Sky, whose talisman is an ornate and delicate blue glass bottle. Sky is propelled right into the midst of a deadly feud between the di Chimici and Nucci families, who think nothing of sliding a knife between a man's ribs for revenge... A breathtaking and thrilling drama with a very special...

  Engels | 496 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Mary Hoffman City of secrets

  "When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world.A breathtaking and thrilling novel that will delight all Stravaganza fans."

  Engels | 400 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Mary Hoffman City of ships

  "Merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an outcast and a pirate. Isabel finds that Classe and Bellezza are under threat from attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city? A thrilling story packed with action, pirates and drama."

  Engels | 368 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Mary Hoffman City of swords

  "Century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith. But Laura also meets the charming and attractive Ludo, and falls for him. Their love for each other is tested when Ludo lays claim to the crown of Fortezza, and Laura finds herself fighting on the side of the Stravaganti opposing him . . .A thrilling tale filled with battles on the field and battles of the heart."

  Engels | 368 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts

  "Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Lesley Glaister Nina Todd has gone

  Een vrouw met een duister verleden leidt een onopvallend bestaan in Sheffield totdat ze een man ontmoet die zich aan haar blijft opdringen en haar confronteert met dat verleden.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Karin Snoep Omdat ik in de wereld loop

  Mies Bouhuys 1927-2008; schrijver en activiste

  Biografische schets van de Nederlandse schrijfster van kinderboeken, musicals, gedichten en kinderseries, met de nadruk op haar rol als activiste tegen onrecht.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | Engels | 128 pagina's | 'In den Vreemde', [Haarlem] | 2014

  Gedrukt boek

• Speelklaar

  eenvoudige bewerkingen voor electronisch orgel met alle teksten en gitaaraccoorden

  Non-fictie

  27 pagina's | B.V. Muziekuitgeverij XYZ, Strengholt Music Group, Naarden-Holland | 2014

  Bladmuziek

• Philip Briggs The Gambia

  Engels | 262 pagina's | Bradt Travel Guides Ltd, Chalfont St. Peter | 2018

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• Motive

  Rechercheur Angie Flynn en haar team moeten bewijsmateriaal zien te vinden om moordenaars te veroordelen.

  Fictie | Detectiveroman

  Film

• Togetherness

  In Los Angeles wonen twee koppels in hetzelfde huis waar ze worstelen met hun onderlinge relaties en met hun eigen individuele problemen.

  Fictie | Humoristische roman

  Film

• Tony Jordan The passing bells

  Twee jonge soldaten, een Engelse en een Duitse, vertrekken met romantische ideeë n naar het front, maar ervaren al snel de verschrikkingen van de oorlog.

  Fictie | Oorlogsroman

  Film

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